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- 1. Preparing and Delivering An Effective Oral Presentation 1
- 2. What This Presentation Is About • What makes a good oral presentation • Tips on preparing a presentation • Delivery of a presentation 2
- 3. Questions You Need To Ask • To whom are you presenting? • How much do they know about the topic? • How educated and/or sophisticated are they? • How large is the audience?
- 4. More Questions To Ask • How long is the presentation? • What is the purpose of the presentation? • Inform? • Persuade? • Entertain? • What do you want to convey?
- 5. Know Your Subject Have something of substance to say. Learn more than you will say. The more you know, the more enthusiastic you will be. 5
- 6. 6 The brain starts working the moment you’re born and never stops until you get up to speak in public. - Anonymous
- 7. Fear Is Good Fear of failing Fear of audience 7
- 8. 8 Audience Fears Allayed • The audience doesn’t know what you intended to say or to do. • You know more about the topic than anyone in the audience.
- 9. Fear Is Good Fear of failing Fear of audience You should be nervous. Adrenaline will pump you up. You will perform better. The audience won’t notice. 9
- 10. 10 Elements of a Good Presentation • Clear purpose or objective • Sufficient, but not too much, information • Organized • Meets needs of audience • For the ear to hear as well as the eye to see • Stories and examples
- 11. Outlining Your Presentation • Methods of organization • chronological or sequential • three points • problem-cause-solution • n ways to … • Stories 11
- 12. Outlining Your Presentation 12 Open Transition Point 1 Examples Point 2 Transition Examples Transition Point 3 Example(s) Transition Close
- 13. Opening • Crucial • Sets the tone • Need to grab audience 13
- 14. Types of Openings • Preview • Ask a question • Ask a rhetorical question • Pose a hypothetical situation • Describe something new or dramatic • Make a startling statement 14
- 15. Delivery of a Good Presentation • Be enthusiastic • Use body language • Talk to the audience • Dress appropriately 15
- 16. Closing the Presentation • Too important to wing it • A speech is like a love affair; any fool can start one but to end it requires considerable skill. - Lord Mancraft (1914-1987) • Last chance to tell what to know and do • Direct, brief, and strong 16
- 17. 17 Closing Styles • Summarize • Call to action • Anecdote or story • Rhetorical question
- 18. 18 Summary Elements of a good presentation • Be clear about its purpose. • Prepare. • Have an attention-getting opening. • Make the content organized and interesting. • Be enthusiastic. • Talk to the audience. • Have a memorable closing.
- 19. Are you prepared to do an effective oral presentation? 19